News

Thanks to Ján Sučan, the project web site has gotten a
much-needed new look. Check it out at
http://kdar.sourceforge.net.
Many thanks to Ján for his hard work on this!

2005-04-08

Here is a screenshot of the new About dialog, which shows
KDar's capabilities. Comments welcome at
kdar-developers@lists.sf.net.

2005-03-28

This weekend I made significant progress on the new user
interface. Here are three screenshots of the latest KDar
GUI look. The first shows the main window with the
dockwidget layout. Very configurable. The next one shows
preliminary work on a new configuration dialog. The last
screenshot shows KDar embedded in Konqueror! Comments
welcome at kdar-developers@lists.sf.net.

2005-03-26

Here is a screenshot of the latest KDar GUI concept. It's
all based on KDockWidgets now. Comments welcome at
kdar-developers@lists.sf.net.

2005-03-24

Work has begun on an archive manager concept. Please have
a look at these previews and let me know what you think at
kdar-developers@lists.sourceforge.net.

2005-03-23

KDar-2.0.3 has been out for several days. It fixes a
serious bug related to Extended Attributes support being
disabled by default.

Sorry, folks, I realize that it's been quite awhile since
I've updated the KDar pages. Lots has been happening since
the previous post. We're in beta mode for KDar-2.0.0.

This version represents a lot of work over the past
few months, both on the libdar side by Denis Corbin, and
on the KDar side. We now have the ability to cleanly and
quickly cancel archiving operations. KDar also has a new
progress dialog, which is shown when creating a new
archive.

Many bugs have been found and squashed too.

2004-11-16

KDar-1.3.0 released. This version features a Spanish
translation (courtesy Mauro Esteve) and a logging
facility. Several bugs have been fixed as well. See the
Changelog in the source distribution for details.

2004-08-14

KDar-1.2.0 released. Many new features and a few bug-fixes
compared to KDar-1.1.1.

2004-07-18

CVS: KDar now reports the current slice and its size in
the statusbar while creating archives.

2004-07-13

KDar 1.2.0-beta1 released. This version represents another
major code rewrite, this time involving a new
configuration class. What does this mean for you? Now you
can save your creation and restore settings into 'Backup
profiles'. The contents of the message window can be sent
to a printer, or they can be cleared. THIS IS BETA
SOFTWARE. DO NOT USE THIS VERSION OF KDAR FOR RELIABLE
BACKUPS. That said, I need people who are willing to test
this software to give feedback about bugs, compilation
problems, etc.

2004-06-08

KDar 1.1.0 released. Welcome to the latest stable version
of KDar. Yes, this project is alive and well. Go to the
download section to get KDar-1.1.0, and to see the
Changelog.

kdar-1.0-beta3 released. Now you can run arbitrary
commands or scripts after each slice is made during a
'create archive' operation. Added credits and compilation
info to the 'Help->About KDar...' dialog.

2004-01-20

kdar-1.0-beta2 released. Now kdar compiles if you have
largefile support enabled in libdar. This release also has
some code cleanups courtesy Sven Bergner.

2004-01-10

Thread-support for many of the libdar operations has been
implemented in CVS. The reason for running these
operations as threads is to maintain GUI responsiveness to
user input

2003-12-12

KDar is now in beta release (version 0.4). Sourcecode
and prepackaged binaries (for Slackware 9.0, at least)
will be available soon. KDar version 0.4 (beta)
requires libdar API 2, which will soon be in prerelease
(currently you can fetch dar-2.1.0_dev from cvs at the
dar homepage).

I anticipate that a stable version of KDar (1.0) will be
ready near the end of January 2004. Beta testers will be
most welcome to try KDar and provide me with feedback.

2003-12-12

These pages have just gotten implemented, so they are
still under construction.

unspecified

KDar version 0.3.4 was released on apps.kde.com. The
apps.kde.com site has been down for quite some time, so
that is what prompted me to register kdar with
sourceforge. KDar version 0.3.4 is based on Denis Corbin's
libdar API 1, i.e. dar-2.0.0.